The Home Community: Do It This a-- 4.

Included in this booklet are content information, teaching techniques, and ways to study about the home community for geography teachers. The author suggests that the home community should be the base of operations in geographic learning at all geographic levels. The home community ' the place where people have common interests, is discussed as a geographic region. The following five major elements of a community are briefly described: physical, spatial, human, cultural, and social. The elements can be studied through surveys, field trips, study of documentary materials, resource persons, map_recording, preparation of pictorial and graphic materials, and participation in Ilervice projects. Suggestions for employing the technignes-re provided. The use of a_scientific method is proposed for studying the home community. Stnps involved in the scientific method include exploring, selecting, measuring classifying, recording, synthesizing, interpreting / and applying. Th